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A winner! :yeah::yeah:

I agree with fully, :sunny:

People are starting to repost the same pictures, without quotes. Not reading the thread?

One can only refer to what one has seen.

Is there any flexibility in its posting,of course we reading...

I think you are concentrating too much on the fluff and not the "deeper meaning" of TNG. Yes its crazy plots and people with rubber foreheads but its there to tell a story about the human condition, TOS and TNG were the only two Star Treks to really do that. After TNG it all became technobabble and alien of the week.

I would say that Written Sci Fi is almost always better than TV and Movie Sci Fi. Just because you can do stuff you can't do in a 1 hr show or 2 hr movie. You will never see a ten year military STL expedition to Lalande 21185 in a movie!

Agree with you there! I've never seen Space Combat done right in any sci fi TV show or Movie except for one early episode of (shudders) Andromeda...

Star Trek, ridiculous.
Star Wars, the same.
Battlestar Remake, good looking, got the weapons right but totally wrong in execution.
Stargate, much like Battlestar.

Fighter planes don't fight in visual range any more neither should space ships!


Actually the only time ST got space combat right was in TOS. Specifically Balance of Terror and The Ultimate Computer plus a few others.

BTW have you ever checked out Projectrho.com? I've dropped that name around here before and I think you would like it.

"Target coming into range, Captain! Ninety thousand kilometers!"

My bad, post #44, girl on the right.
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Oh, no. I knew what you meant there. I was the one who brought up Gina Torres, but didn't mention the other because I had never seen that show, nor heard of her.

That was what I meant. :D :damn: :rotfl2:

I agree on some early ST (TOS) combat.

First few seasons B5 had it right, too. Centauri ship fires. Cut scene to to Narn ship FAR away on limb of planet cut in half. Way BVR. 10s of thousands of km, min.

No big deal..

Sulu misplaced that decimal point a few places. The RCS thrusters on the Space Shuttle (the ones they use for station keeping and docking) can be spotted by another ship with present day passive detection systems at ranges in excess of 100 million kilometers. :03:

ooo... source? I want to read this shi-!! (Seriously - this is cool to me.)

This is hard stuff, :DL

Sulu wasn't talking about detection range. Sulu was reporting effective weapons range.

Don't you know anything? :O:

I always got a chuckle when watching the original Battle Star Galatica when the officer would report that the cylons were 40 microns away.

Talk about waiting until you see the whites of their eyes. :o:o

Are u sure,this is serious :o

Still short range. 1 Light Second would be a more likely an effective weapons range (approx 300,000 km) since the Phasers on the Enterprise can fire in a barrage pattern and (somehow) detonate in proximity.

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.php

I knew you were making this up as you went along!

1. The targetting computers weren't that accurate back in the old days.

2. Phasers don't detonate - that takes a photon torpedo.

3. I saw it in the show, so there!

4. My BS mojo juju magic tech is both prettier and shinier than yours, so there again!

well how do you think I appear to know so much about everything!

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/8...leunderatt.jpg
They seem to be able to hit a specific building on a planet from orbit... seems accurate to me...

-Balance of Terror (TOS)


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Say what? :06:

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